The next four limericks are from Animal Antics, a comic strip series by DeVoss Driscoll that ran in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from 22 November 1903 to 24 April 1904.
Thanks to Allan Holtz of Stripper’s Guide.

I’ll be on holiday for a few weeks and I have prepared a series of limericks by Oliver Herford, which appeared in The Century. Illustrated Monthly Magazine from 1911 to 1913.
Oliver Herford was born in December, 1863, at Manchester, England. He studied art in London and at Julien’s in Paris, […]

The idea of starting with the three limericks Lewis Carroll wrote (at the age of 13 for the first of his domestic magazines, Useful and Instructive Poetry) may seem peculiar, as they are neither good nor of any historical importance. Carroll fans, not satisfied of admiring the most cited author of all times, will be […]